What is workday extend?

What is Workday Extend?

Workday Extend is a platform enabling businesses to broaden their Workday applications by crafting new apps that seamlessly integrate with Workday. It serves as a development tool for organizations to construct tailored applications meeting their specific business requirements.

These applications can streamline business processes, establish fresh workflows, and enhance Workday's capabilities. Workday Extend is an extension of the Workday ecosystem rather than a standalone product. It utilizes the same data model, security model, user interface, and business processes as Workday, ensuring smooth user experience and integration.

It is worth mentioning that Workday Extend does not function as a conventional app development platform. The "apps" generated in Workday Extend differ from those found in mobile app stores. Instead, these are business applications designed to operate within the Workday ecosystem, enriching and customizing the functionality of Workday's suite of applications.

Workday Extend facilitates the expansion of functionality within Workday applications, tailoring them to specific business requirements.

Operating within the Workday cloud, it ensures seamless integration, a consistent user interface, and secure data access.

Through Workday Extend, users can create applications that utilize Workday's data model, security framework, and business processes. The platform supports the entire application lifecycle, encompassing development, deployment, and monitoring.

Workday Extend empowers users to orchestrate processes and enhance flexibility by extending the data object model. It stimulates innovation, enhances operational efficiency, and cultivates a culture of continuous improvement.

Case studies:

IBM:

IBM utilized Workday Extend to create a global time off app seamlessly integrated with Workday HCM, managing complex absence rules and time offs. Leveraging Workday Cloud Platform ensured a consistent user experience

Target:

They developed a custom payroll application to address their distinct payroll necessities, surpassing the capabilities of standard Workday Payroll. This tailored app seamlessly integrates with Workday, ensuring a cohesive experience for both employees and payroll administrators.

Sunlife:

Many of their applications prioritize enhancing the employee experience by eliminating obstacles from tasks that would otherwise be cumbersome. Whether it involves converting paper forms into digital ones or surpassing limitations in existing digital processes, they leverage Extend to achieve this. Ultimately, their focus is on streamlining processes and continuously improving through iteration and learning.

To summarize When presented with a business challenge, we need to assess whether it requires digitizing an existing process or demands a scalable solution that is entirely new. This upfront understanding is crucial, as each scenario entails distinct technical and configuration requirements. The benefit of this approach is that it enhances our understanding of the system, enabling us to develop more applications effectively. It also aids in discerning when certain tasks align better with configuration methods or require development through Workday Extend, fostering a seamless integration between the two.

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